using ar to make a shared lib

[Christopher Bottaro]

hello,
is it possible to make a shared lib (.so file) with ar?  i compile all 
my sources with gcc and the -fPIC option, but instead of linking them 
together with gcc and the -shared linker flag, i just wanna use ar...is 
this possible?

example:
gcc -c s1.c -fPIC
gcc -c s2.c -fPIC
gcc -c s3.c -fPIC
ar crv s.so s1.o s2.o s3.o

thanks for the help.